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ACTION: Tell AP To Remove Ron Fournier From the Presidential Beat
Firedoglake — ... masquerading as news that has constituted the AP's political coverage of this election. . Eric Boehlert and Media Matters have covered Fournier's cozy relationship with Karl Rove and his encouragement of the "Obama is an elitist" meme. . Julia has written that Fournier consistently attacks other candidates while promoting McCain. . Jonathan Singer and John Aravosis have more, as does MoveOn. ...

MoveOn.org Attacks AP's Fournier Over Biden As VP Analysis
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... Not surprisingly, the far-left organization MoveOn -- never happy when a mainstream media outlet has the nerve to actually say anything bad about a liberal -- has posted a strongly-worded rebuttal at its website that repeatedly asks readers to send e-mail messages to the wire service warning that "the public's faith in the 160-year-old AP will be gone if Ron Fournier is allowed to continue his slanted articles against Democrats and for McCain." ...

Shocker: Wide-Spread Media Corruption Exposed
Riehl World View — ... They're going to have to find a new origin for the word liberal as clearly liberalis simply doesn't apply any longer. The Moveon.org stoked current and sure to be on going call to silence the AP's Ron Fournier for daring to suggest the Obamessiah's pick of Joe Biden displayed a lack of confidence began yesterday with this little gem. You would have thought they'd at least of buried the link to AATCN: AP's Ron Fournier may command speaking fees of up to $10,000 ...

8/25: Reactions To Biden
Blogometer — ... in the first paragraph of the Biden story going out on all the wires is an aggressive Republican spin. Fournier has already weakened the AP's rep for pretty straight-up reportage. It just got a lot weaker. Last spring, by the way, Fournier was lambasting Obama for arrogance. Now, apparently, it's a lack of confidence. Whatever works, I guess. But please, get a blog." Meanwhile, MoveOn.org has launched an campaign urging its members to email the AP and "tell them that the public's faith in the 160-year-old AP will be gone if Ron Fournier is allowed to continue his slanted ...

McCain suck-up watch
WTF Is It Now?!? — ... If you said some mouthbreathing, dribbling gpuke cumstain at Faux Nooze or World Nut Daily it would make perfect sense, but it would be wrong -- and that's just one of the reasons why MoveOn.org is blasting the AP and their greasy-fingered bureau chief/Karl Rove succubus Ron "Gargles" Fournier. ...

Hey! Don't come around here no more
SteveAudio — ... picks say something profound about Obama: For all his self-confidence, the 47-year-old Illinois senator worried that he couldn't beat Republican John McCain without help from a seasoned politician willing to attack. The Biden pick is the next logistical step in an Obama campaign that has become more negative — a strategic decision that may be necessary but threatens to run counter to his image. Well, this generated a lot of heat and criticism in the intertubes. MoveOn.org and our friends at Firedoglake organized letter writing campaigns to call for ...